Nuclear waste is deadly. I takes millions of years for it to cool off and e 'safe'. But we need energy, and wind and solar keep gettin twarted. So we have nuclear energy. And the universe is huge. So shall we send nuclear waste to outter space far, far, away?
2007-01-06 10:30:32 · 13 answers · asked by I.M. 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I love how you cant edit questions. Change "I" to "It" and insert a "b" in front of "e"
2007-01-06 10:32:26 · update #1
Sure, only if you agree to clean up the mass if the rocket caring NUCLEAR WASTE should blow up in our atmosphere spraying radio active material all over our sky in some accident(like the shuttles did). Good luck with that.
2007-01-06 10:38:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good question!
Unfortunately, the danger of actually getting the waste out of our planet's orbit is not yet feasible, and more importantly, such a task would not be insurable -- no insurance company on earth would indemnify such an experiment.
You see, in this case, what goes up, must come down. In theory we could get it to some distant spot. But if anything went wrong during the space trip, millions of people on earth could die in minutes -- it's not worth the risk.
This is not to say that one day we won't have reliable enough space travel to make this work -- but not for a while.
But we could require the building of 'smart' houses worldwide.
Really, why are Germany & Sweden leading the way, and not the U.S.? This would reduce the global need for electricity enormously:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy_house
2007-01-06 11:14:18 · answer #2 · answered by Marc Miami 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
countless thousand miles is a tiny distance. strengthen of the universe is on the size of billions of sunshine years. At some thousand miles, or some thousand gentle years, it is not substantive in any respect. yet once you strengthen that one thousand miles to a hundred thousand miles, it incredibly is a answer, besides the shown fact that it has substantial problems. the subjects with employing rockets to shoot nuclear waste into area are: a million. What occurs if the rocket has a challenge and crashes. then you definately scatter the radioactive waste over a huge area or into the sea. you would be employing a great variety of rockets, so the percentages of having some crash are excessive. 2. The pollutants from a rocket going into orbit is excessive. to that end, you will possibly elect many 1000's of rockets to deliver the waste into area. Sending cloth into, say the solar, takes approximately one thousand pounds of rocket gasoline for each pound of payload. and remember approximately the pollutants used interior the producing those 1000's of rockets. .
2016-10-30 04:46:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amount of rocket fuel needed to remove 1/4 of all the nuclear waste on earth is rediculous.Until there is an easier way to send objects into orbit this plan won't work.
2007-01-06 10:40:23 · answer #4 · answered by Nelo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In theory that's a good idea but we don't know that we're alone and the sooner we start throwing **** into space the more likely it is that (if there is life out there) it won't be happy with us then we have problems with another planet, when our planet can't even work out how to get along.
If you're mind is closed to that kind of thing then perhaps its simply time to write to polititions and the like and say man, i think solar power is cool.
2007-01-06 10:43:55 · answer #5 · answered by deegal72 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As mention, I had always thought it be good to send it into the sun. But, I not sure of cost, and this a factor, believe me. Also, if something went wrong the Cargo could get misdirected and come back on us. Also, we need to have a good idea of the effects the waste may actually have on the sun.
2007-01-06 10:42:35 · answer #6 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
How much waste are we talking about? What would it cost?
If you sent it into the Sun, it would definitely be neutralized as a threat to anybody.
2007-01-06 10:36:43 · answer #7 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dump it in the middle east. It might improve that area.
2007-01-06 11:25:16 · answer #8 · answered by X_YELLOWJACKET_X 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't. You do and it'll come back or pollute some other atmosphere and then Klingons will come gunning for us. You watch.
2007-01-06 10:44:20 · answer #9 · answered by Reo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not until we know there isn't life where were sending it. even then it might come back to bite us in the butt when it mutaes our worst inter-spatial enemies, or when we habitate the world, or it even might some how come back and hit us
2007-01-06 10:34:44 · answer #10 · answered by V-Dub 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋